Comments on: Reborn! (anime/manga)

By: Indurrago

Indurrago — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:23:12 +0000

Reborn is a nice shounen when you’re in the mood of shounen otherwise isn’t by far unique or much of an improvement compared to other shounen manga out there nor is the story particularly more deep than others even with those dramatically emotional moments(which shounen manga have anyway). The biggest difference I see was the main character Tsuna was the main “buttmonkey” of the series but same goes with Naruto actually. Imho, GTO was infinitely more entertaining action and comedy-wise, than any nearly any generic shounen anime I watched including reborn(which it sadly has become). I don’t mean I didn’t enjoy it, I just didn’t enjoy it any more than other shounen anime. It hasn’t done enough differently to make it more memorable than other shounen anime. I actually do like it more than One piece, Naruto or Bleach but not by that much.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:28:32 +0000

As I told Misa-Chan, I dont want to start an internet war, but (of course) I disagree. When I mean “typical”, I do mean that there is shonen what not (fighting, manliness, brotherhoods, ects.), but this show has more elements to it than say, Naruto. And One Piece? Really? Its good for a well developed shonen series to make the timing seem realistic (5 episodes can show a week of hard core training vs. 1 episode. ect.), but One Piece stretches thing faaaar out. I admit, I didn’t watch all of One Piece, but I got pretty far to learn that it is nothing more than a standard shonen series. And yes, I do group One Piece along with Naruto and Bleach as good, but typical and long, shonen series.

By: Lianne

Lianne — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:44:03 +0000

Shadow:

1.) Generally, when a series moves from being a satire to a typical shounen epic, interest drops…because the world already has too many shounen epics. Besides, One Piece makes every other shounen epic of the past ten years look like crap.

2.) Here’s my micro review of Pandora Hearts (anime): it was disappointing. All the cool visuals and interesting surreal plot points couldn’t make up for the fact that the characters were painfully one-dimensional and the story ran out of good ideas and thus started repeating them about halfway through. I wanted to like it, but I didn’t. So there you go.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:21:30 +0000

And One more thing: This show is only a parody in the beginning. Near episode 35ish, the show drops parody-ness for a 20 episode battle (which was the first taste of epic). Then, around episode 70ish, the show drops being a pardoy COMPLETLY, and becomes a typical shonen series. To all of you who were bored, lemme tell you this: If you really like shonen, STICK WITH THE SERIES! IT WILL BECOME BETTER, I PROMISE!

Shadow Out!

By: Shadow

Shadow — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:16:21 +0000

Dear Misa-Chan:
Ello, your stalker arrives
I dont wanna turn this into an internet war, so I’ll get to the point: You are correct that you didn’t watch enough to get a good taste. What I feel is that you’ve watched many 20-50 episode series, so you are used to getting the character development done quickly. Reborn is an anime where you can’t just have the main character really weak then in 10 episodes be all “BOOM! I AM GOD! I KILL YOU ALL!” It just doesnt work in this kind of anime. I know I’ve forced you to watch and complain when you refuse, but if you TRULY aren’t the type of person who can watch an anime where you need to be a follower and the plot slowly unfolds, then I will stop bugging you and force you to watch Pandora Hearts

Which BTW, YOU NEED A REVIEW ON!!!!

By: misa-chan

misa-chan — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:06:18 +0000

I tried the anime recently. I guess I didn’t get that it was a parody, because I got through about 5 episodes, and it bored me out of my mind so I quit. I’d only started it in the first place because a couple friends were on episode 60 and it was all they could talk about. Perhaps babies shooting adolescents who can’t do anything unless they are in their underwear is not my cup of tea? I guess the only character I enjoyed was Bianchi. She was funny. As for the other characters, Lambo got on my nerves because he seemed to serve no purpose OTHER than getting on my nerves. Tsuna (on my first impression) seemed weak and unable to do anything unless hit with the Dying Will bullet. Etc. I also thought the anime got really repetitive – I even worked it out to a formula of the plotline of each episode I saw. Maybe I just didn’t sample enough of it to really get a good taste, and maybe first impressions aren’t always the best, but I can say with utmost certainty that it will be awhile until I ever revisit Reborn.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:57:12 +0000

I’m all up-to-date on Reborn episodes, and I must say: I’ve loved it from the beginning filler episodes.
I like how it starts out light hearted (like Kuroshitsuji, D.Gray-man, most shonen ect.) and then turns into a life or death battle (ect. Tens Years into the FUTURE!)
This series covers most of the key shonen points and I think thats why this is one of the better anime shows

By: Red

Red — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:53:45 +0000

So I’m guessing you never got to volume eight and nine or the genre shift volumes because it went from comedy/parody to action/adventure of a generic shonen. I wonder if Longchamp shall ever be re-introduced because I certainly wasn’t expecting Irie to be reintroduced as an antagonist.

By: melantho

melantho — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:08:22 +0000

Reborn is GREAT. Yes, it’s parody, but it’s not bitingly satirical or anything; there’s still that earnest shounen tone in there, and the characters are really good…a special villain prize goes to Belphegor and Squalo.
My one complaint with this manga is that, like every shounen ever, the fights are too long. The fight against Xanxus works well as a parody, what with the ‘ULTIMATE WEAPON’ gimmick being pulled out again and again, but it got kind of tedious. Most of the fights since then have been okay, but that was definitely a weak bit.

and re: pandering to female readers:
all the khr fans I know are girls…totally understandable, given that nearly all the main characters are bishounen.